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Saturday, July 26, 2014

AMERICA HAS THE MIDDLE EAST COVEREDTHE U.S. HAS A FINGER IN EVERY MIDDLE EASTERN "PIE"U.S. "POLICY", HOWEVER PICKS AND CHOOSES WHO GOES, WHO STAYS, AND WHO GETS THE DRONE STRIKES!

"...the U.S. counter-terrorism mission -- with all its unmanned drones, tens of thousands of troops, untold billions spent on spy programs, and covert warfare campaigns in over a dozen countries -- is NOT going away anytime soon."

"How can these messages about DEMOCRACY be seen as credible when there has been no public threat from the U.S. to cut off military aid to countries that are killing their own people and repressing dissent?"

On Iraq, Americans by 52%-37% say the United States mostly failed to achieve its goals. On Afghanistan, Americans by a nearly identical 52%-38% say the U.S. has mostly failed to achieve its goals. The biggest shift in attitudes toward the Iraq War came among
Republicans and those who lean to the GOP. In 2011, 65% of them said the
war had succeeded; now just 38% do.

IF AMERICANS SEE THE FAILURES, WHAT DO THOSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST SEE?

LIBYA....FAILU.S. shuts down embassy in LibyaThe diplomats were evacuated to neighboring Tunisia under U.S. military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli as fighting intensified between rival militias.Today's Libya is overrun by militias and faces a deteriorating human rights situation, mounting chaos that is infecting other countries, growing internal splits, and even the threat of civil war. Libya's chaos is spilling across the region. THE U.S. AND NATO BOMBED THE SUPREME HELL OUT OF LIBYA TO GET RID OF THE "DICTATOR" 90% OF LIBYANS LOVED...AND ARMED THOSE WHO KILLED HIM SO THAT NOW "ISIS" AND OTHER REBEL GROUPS CAN KILL SYRIANS ALL THEY PLEASE.

IRAQ....FAILWe certainly didn’t bring democracy and freedom to Iraq, and Iraqi citizens are quick to tell reporters that. "It is worse here now than when we had Saddam," many are saying."The US troops left behind a devastated, tortured Iraq.""Iraq once most developed in the middle east is now rubbish."Iraqis blame U.S.-led coalition forces and Iraqi militias for at least 70% of deaths since 2009. Deaths picked back up in 2009 and then even further in 2010, to 2005 levels. Iraq has refused to grant US troops immunity from prosecution for potential war crimes

Documented stories about the militant Islamist group ISIS and abuses by the Iraqi government continue to emerge from Iraq. Iraqi leaders fear that the country is sliding rapidly into a new civil war which “will be worse than Syria”.Baghdad residents are stocking up on rice, vegetables and other foodstuffs.Hawijah people are frightened of a return to the massacres of 2006.

AFGHANISTAN....FAILTaliban's leader in Afghanistan has warned against the presence of US-led troops in the country after 2014, saying it means more fighting...halted minibuses in western Afghanistan, identified 14 Shiite passengers and shot them dead by the side of the road ...“This whole 12 years was one of constant pleading with America to treat
the lives of our civilians as lives of people,” Karzai stated,
continuing his denunciation of the terror of anti-terrorism exemplified
by Bush’s orgy of torture followed by Obama’s drone attacks that
traumatize the Afghan countryside. Karzai, no stranger to corruption and
contradiction, has refused to sign a pact authorizing a continued and
much reduced US presence in his country unless all such unilateral
military attacks on his people are ended. As for the Taliban enemy that
the US invasion had temporarily deposed, Karzai referred to them as
“brothers” while he dismissed his erstwhile American sponsors as
“rivals,” indicating that Obama now has his own “mission accomplished”
embarrassment.

EGYPT...FAILIt’s not clear why the White House helped usher out Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, who abided by the Camp David accords for 30 years at some personal risk.The Obama administration has been all over the place on Egypt, sticking briefly with Hosni Mubarak, then siding with his ouster, then working hard to establish productive relations with the Muslim Brotherhood and its democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, then backing the military coup that removed Morsi six months ago (without calling it a coup) and finally arguing, in the words of Kerry last August, that the military headed by Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi was “restoring democracy.”THAT IS NOT TRUE!Egypt, home to about a quarter of all Arabs and the fulcrum of the Arab Spring, is in a disastrous state. “Thousands of Egyptians celebrated the third anniversary of their revolt against autocracy on Saturday by holding a rally for the military leader who ousted the country’s first democratically elected president.”“I have never had so many of my friends in jail, arrested only for expressing their own opinions,” said Rami Shaath, 42, a left-leaning activist and executive for a technology company preparing for a short-lived march from a mosque in Giza.The Islamist militants and the authoritarian state “feed off of each other,” he said, the militants crusading against the corruption of the state and the state using the fear of terrorism to justify limiting freedoms.In addition to the violent suppression of protesters, the coup and the crackdown following it have had several negative effects on the country. Egypt’s religious minorities have faced increased hostility and persecution at the hands of Islamists, and now at least one Islamist groups is resorting to bomb attacks that presage greater violence and repression.

SYRIA...FAILU.S. intelligence chief James Clapper is describing the situation in Syria as an "apocalyptic disaster".Clapper told a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday that the war has killed more than 134,000 people and created nearly 10 million refugees.U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today called the Obama administration’s approach to resolving the worsening conflict in Syria “a failure” of U.S. foreign policy.Now the former CIA chief, General Michael Hayden, says that Assad winning would be the best geopolitical outcome of the conflict. AND IF ASSAD FALLS?"It means the end of the Sykes-Picot (Agreement), it sets in motion the dissolution of all the artificial states created after World War I," Hayden said. A breakdown in the century-old settlement could spread chaos in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, Hayden warned. "The dominant story going on in Syria is a Sunni fundamentalist takeover of a significant part of the Middle East geography, the explosion of the Syrian state and of the Levant as we know it."

WHAT WE MAY FORGET IS THAT AMERICA LOVED AND SUPPORTED ASSAD FOR OVER A DECADE!With the moderate Free Syrian Army troops being driven out of Syria by the more Islamist wing, America doesn't really know what to do.The chemical arms deal was, in a sense, support for Assad and it indicated that the U.S. preferred that Assad keeps control of those weapons until they could be destroyed rather than destroying Assad as the rebels wanted and letting those weapons fall into the hands of the Islamic rebels.Saudi Arabia is pushing America HARD to oust Assad. Assad, it has been said, is backed by Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia.

Over 1,000 rebel groups were fighting against Assad, MANY BACKED BY THE SAUDIS, and increasingly over the year we've seen them consolidate to what is that Islamic Front today.Saudi Arabia now says it would go it alone even if the United States does not pursue arming the rebels. The Saudis are buying some 15,000 new anti-tank weapons and their current stock will be unloaded onto their Islamic Front mercenaries in Syria.

WHATEVER SAUDIS WANT, SAUDIS GET!IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY!KISS THEM IN THE MOUTH AND STROLL THEM TENDERLY THROUGH THE ROSE GARDEN.

"The Obama administration is willing to consider supporting an expanded Syrian rebel coalition that would include Islamist groups, provided the groups are not allied with al-Qaeda and agree to support upcoming peace talks in Geneva, a senior U.S. official said Thursday. In addition, the official said, the Americans would like the Islamic Front groups to return U.S. vehicles, communications gear and other non-lethal equipment they seized [in December] from warehouses at the Syria-Turkey border."American would also like a pink pony....

PAKISTAN TURNS ON AMERICASince missiles fired by American drones killed Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, in his vehicle last Novermber, Pakistan’s political leaders have reacted with unusual vehemence. The interior minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, denounced the strike as sabotage of incipient government peace talks with the Taliban. Media commentators ranted about American treachery.To some American security analysts, the furious reaction was another sign of the perversity and ingratitude that they say have scarred Pakistan’s relationship with the United States.

“It’s another stab in the back,” said Bill Roggio, whose website, the Long War Journal, monitors drone strikes. “Even those of us who watch Pakistan closely don’t know where they stand anymore. It’s such a double game.”

To many Pakistanis, though, it is the United States that is double-dealing, and sentiments like Mr. Roggio’s exemplify typical American arrogance. Shireen Mazari, a senior official in Mr. Khan’s party, has urged the Pakistani military to shoot down drones.

Pakistanis have a consistent, if relatively recent, history of rooting for people the West has deemed villains, and against people the West has praised.Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who is serving an 86-year jail sentence in New York for trying to kill Americans in Afghanistan, is a virtual national hero, popularly known as the “daughter of the nation.” Malala Yousafzai, the teenage education activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban last year, making her an icon around the world, has been demonized in Pakistan, where she is regularly called a C.I.A. agent or a pawn of the West.

TURKEY ACCUSES U.S. OF GENOCIDEThe head of Turkey's parliamentary human rights group has accused Washington of genocide in Iraq and behaving worse than Adolf Hitler, in remarks underscoring the depth of opposition in Turkey to U.S. policy in the region.The US war against Iraq was illegal and illegitimate. It violated the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and a host of international laws and treaties"The occupation turned into barbarism," Mehmet Elkatmis, head of parliament's human rights commission, said. "The U.S. administration is committing genocide...in Iraq.

YEMEN...AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT AGAINThe New York Times reported that the U.S. is now pushing for the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a repressive dictator and close U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaeda. In the two months since pro-democracy protests began in Yemen, U.S. support for Saleh did not falter even when his police fired on demonstrators, killing dozens. For President Obama, it was an ugly compromise perceived in the U.S. as necessary for national security and abroad as a sign of U.S hypocrisy. After all, how could the U.S. truly be the global beacon of democracy that every president in a century has declared it to be if it props up a man whose decades of rule have been the opposite of all that America supposedly stands for? In the Arab press, Obama has been harshly criticized for continuing to support Arab dictators in Yemen and Bahrain for their role in aiding U.S. security.NOW, we see the U.S.'s drastic shift from supporting Saleh's autocratic rule to pushing for his resignation and for the establishment of "a legitimate Yemeni democracy".HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THAT DEMOCRACY FOR THE MIDDLE EAST RUSE!The US-Yemen relationship gained some attention during the Wikileaks release of State Department cables as it was revealed that ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to let Americans bomb inside his country and to lie about it to his people. This cooperation on counterterrorism is a major factor in how the US responds to the violence:

The Yemeni government has also worked extensively with the US to reduce the number of foreign-born Muslims visiting Sana'a to learn Arabic. The US has long believed that "learning Arabic in Sana'a" was generally a front for terrorist training and radicalization. All the while, US "security assistance" to Yemen has shot up, from an already-impressive $67 million in 2009 to requests for first $150 million and then over a billion dollars in 2010. (NOTE: The $1 billion was just a request, a number under discussion according to the cables.)

THE SAUDIS, ONCE AGAIN, INFLUENCE U.S. POLICY IN BOTH YEMEN AND BAHRAIN!The Saudi monarchy has long been propping up pro-Saudi rulers in BAHRAIN and YEMEN to keep them in power despite massive protests that would have toppled the toughest regimes elsewhere.

BAHRAIN... the U.S. supplied Bahrain with enough .50 caliber rounds—used in sniper rifles and machine guns—to kill every Bahraini in the kingdom FOUR TIMES OVER! Since protests started on February 14th in Bahrain, things have escalated considerably, with Saudi Arabia and the UAE sending in troops to protect the ruling family from protesters. Disturbing reports of violence used against protesters have streamed in since then. Human Rights Watch reports that masked men have been arresting doctors and human rights workers in nighttime raids, and injured people have been denied medical care. The AP had a harrowing report in march, 2011, of people being pulled from hospital beds by men in military uniforms:The Salmaniya medical complex — now under military rule — appears to be one of the last main targets of Bahrain's Sunni rulers trying to crush a pro-democracy uprising by the country's Shiite majority. The hospital treated hundreds of injured demonstrators and its morgue held some of the dead since the revolt began last month in the strategically important Gulf country, the home of U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.The United States has a cozy relationship with the government of Bahrain, largely because the Bahrain and its allies have raised the scary specter of Iran and its growing power that might result if democracy breaks out in Bahrain. The country receives military aid and provides logistical support for Iraq and Afghanistan and houses the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet. Nick Turse reports that bullets that are killing protesters may have been paid for with US tax dollars:<<A TomDispatch analysis of Defense Department documents indicates that, since the 1990s, the United States has transferred large quantities of military materiel, ranging from trucks and aircraft to machine-gun parts and millions of rounds of live ammunition, to Bahrain's security forces.

According to data from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the branch of the government that coordinates sales and transfers of military equipment to allies, the US has sent Bahrain dozens of "excess" American tanks, armored personnel carriers, and helicopter gunships. The US has also given the Bahrain Defense Force thousands of .38 caliber pistols and millions of rounds of ammunition, from large-caliber cannon shells to bullets for handguns. To take one example, the US supplied Bahrain with enough .50 caliber rounds—used in sniper rifles and machine guns—to kill every Bahraini in the kingdom four times over. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency did not respond to repeated requests for information and clarification.While the administration has condemned violence against peaceful protesters, Turse reports that Washington has since “softened its tone” after lobbying by the Pentagon, Bahrain’s State Department emissaries and Middle East allies. When protesters showed up at the US embassy in Manama with signs bearing slogans such as “stop supporting dictators,” a U.S. Embassy official brought them a box of doughnuts..>>

FROM THE TEHRAN TIMES NEWS SITE!According to official figures released by the "Bahrain Center for Human Rights" website, at least 44 Bahraini citizens were killed at the hands of mercenaries of Al Khalifa regime. The Bahraini "martyrs" include the 6-year-old Mohammed Farhan, 14-year-old Ali Jawad Alshaikh and 15-year-old Sayed Ahmad Saeed Shams. The Bahraini organization has reported that many of these people were killed while in custody. The Center has also published documents indicating that more than 1,500 Bahrainis including about 100 women were incarcerated since the eruption of turmoil in the Persian Gulf country on February 14, 2011 and that more that 90 journalists face DEATH threat. http://www.tehrantimes.com/oped/92990-arab-and-western-hypocrisy-on-syria-

THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS:THE ILLEGITIMATE HOUSE OF SAUD POINTS AN OIL-DIPPED FINGER AT WHOMEVER THEY WISH DESTROYED, AND AMERICA IS HER WAR DOG.The house of al-Saud has become highly adept in exploiting regional ethnic and religious fault lines to advance its own political goals, a practice first used in the 1950s against Nasser’s Egypt and continued till now.

The blueprint for the kingdom’s reaction to revolutionary movements in the Middle East has remained unchanged, whether it is applied to a military-led regime similar to Nasser’s, or a clergy-lead government upheaval like the one in Iran. The Saudi recipe calls for a combination of media, religious, security and political pressures aiming to halt any meaningful change in the region—especially if it can negatively affect the monarchy’s standing.

The Saudi regime has a formidable arsenal, which includes its massive oil revenues, media empires, religious establishment, intelligence services, and the gravitas of its political leadership. The monarchy wields this unrivaled collection of assets with skill and fluency that puts leading western political establishments to shame, making Obama’s national security team look like amateurs in comparison.

Take Bahrain, for example. The Saudis invaded the country with no objection from the United States. One would think that the U.S. would at least show concern for the safety of its Fifth Fleet servicemen who are now forced to share a small patch of land with thousands of well-armed soldiers without any supposed coordination. The rest of the world, too, supported the invasion and continued to sell arms to the country that targets peaceful protesters, and will not be leaving Bahrain anytime soon.

As for Yemen, the monarchy’s many years of involvement in the affairs of its poorer neighbor yielded great results—both President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his main rival Sadiq Al-Ahmar are loyal to Saudi Arabia and have been on its payroll for decades. Meanwhile, the leaders of the uprising have been sidelined and left with nothing more than giving speeches at rapidly shrinking rallies.

The Saudi success is rooted in the region’s fragmentation and the ease of buying out loyalists, especially among the Saudi-oriented salafists who have been attacking churches in Egypt and movie theaters in Tunisia. This is a strategy that makes it easy for the rest of the world to equate revolution with chaos. The kingdom thus has not only been able to keep its head above the water, but also has continued to actively shape the region to fit its needs.

n Egypt, where a friendly autocrat of long standing was unceremoniously deposed by popular pressure in just a few weeks; and in Iran, where a hostile, rival theocracy continues its march toward both nuclear weapons and regional predominance. To make matter worse, the Saudis see these twin disasters as signs of self-defeating American errors and inhibitions, leaving Riyadh in the lurch.

With Mubarak gone, the main Saudi interest is now to keep Egypt steered not toward democracy, but away from Iran. Billions of dollars in Saudi economic aid to the desperate new government in Cairo are apparently conditioned on just this one demand. From Riyadh’s vantage point, the United States is simply too distracted and destitute to make up for its original sin of pushing Mubarak out by keeping Egypt’s new rulers under control.

This disillusionment with U.S. policy is actually what led Saudi Arabia to its highly uncharacteristic, decisive military intervention in Bahrain. Saudi troops are keeping a subordinate Sunni monarch on the throne; nipping the democratic “virus” in the bud before it can infect and maybe undermine stability in other small oil sheikhdoms, or even inside Saudi Arabia itself; and preempting a potential Iranian beachhead on its border— all with relatively little bloodshed to boot. As a result, the United States has accepted this anti-democratic fait accompli as part of “the price of the price of oil.”

Syria. Here, the popular uprising against President Assad’s regime is creating a newfound convergence of interests between Washington and Riyadh, in weakening and perhaps eventually toppling Iran’s only major Arab ally. This time, Saudi soft power—Al-Arabiya TV and other pan-Arab media, money, Muslim (Sunni) solidarity, and discreet diplomacy—is being deployed against a dictator, in the service not of democracy but of traditional Saudi “riyalpolitik” in the struggle against Iran. And this time, too, the self-interested Saudi policy is quite compatible with U.S. interests as well.

In short, while Saudi Arabia opposes U.S. policy on democracy, it generally ends up supporting U.S. policies on oil and Iran. And as the old American saying goes, “two out of three ain’t bad.”

Few remember the words of the perceptive Lieutenant
Colonel Daniel Davis, US Army, who wrote about Afghanistan two years ago
that:

“The United States, along with over 40 NATO and other
allied nations, possesses the most sophisticated, powerful, and
technologically advanced military force that has ever hit the field of
combat. We have the finest and most well trained soldiers that exist
anywhere; we have armored vehicles of every type, to include MIA2 Main
Battle Tanks; artillery, mortars, advanced rockets, precision guided
missiles, and hand-held rocket launchers; we have a wholly uncontested
air force composed of NATO’s most advanced ground attack fighter jets,
bombers, AWACS controllers, spy planes, signals-interception aircraft, B
1 bombers, attack helicopters, and massive transport jets to ferry our
troops and critical supplies where they are needed; we have thousands of
unmanned aerial drones both for intelligence collection and
missile-launching; we have a helicopter fleet for personnel transport
and attack support; we have an enormous constellation of spy satellites;
logistics that are as limitless as the combined weight of the
industrial world; we have every technological device known to the
profession of arms; we are able to intercept virtually every form of
insurgent communication to include cell phones, walkie-talkies,
satellite phones, email, and even some ability to eavesdrop on otherwise
private conversations; a remarkably capable cohort of intelligence
analysts that are as educated, well trained and equipped to a degree
that used to exist only in science fiction; and our various nations
have the economic wherewithal to spend tens of billions of dollars each
month to fund it all. And for almost 10 years we have pitted this
unbelievable and unprecedented capability against:A bunch of dudes in bed sheets and flip-flops.”

AND WE COULD NOT WIN... WE HAD NO BUSINESS TRYING!

A FEW OF MY 'SOURCES':~http://fikraforum.org/?p=1485~http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175367/nick_turse_bahrain~http://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-will-west-going-to-intervene-to.html~http://noahdavidsimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/us-support-of-bullets-and-blackhawksin.html~http://my.firedoglake.com/rebeccagriffin/2011/03/23/bullets-vs-doughnuts-bahrain-yemen-and-the-us-response/~http://fas.org/asmp/library/publications/recycle.htm~https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=468686~http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/120961.pdf~http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/world/middleeast/26yemen.html~http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ar/politics/2012/05/what-is-being-proposed-for-syria.html~http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/25/first_tunisia_then_egypt_now_yemen~http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained~http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/12/us_seeks_to_include_moderate_i.php~http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/12/muslim-congressmans-hajj-paid-for-by-muslim-brotherhood-front-group~http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5643.htm~http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-civil-war-in-iraq-has-already-begun-politician-claims-conflict-has-started-and-warns-it-will-be-worse-than-syria-8601732.html~http://www.cuttingedge.org/newsletters/050713.htm~http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33613.htm~http://www.worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/where-gaddafi-is-revered-with-libyan-refugees-in-tunisia/revolution-war-ansar-al-sharia-egypt-revolution-february-17/c1s16041/~http://thesantosrepublic.com/2011/10/20/purging-psyops-usa-murdered-gaddafi-and-the-legacy-of-libyas-great-leader/~http://www.thenation.com/article/178223/super-bowl-war-three-decades-failure-afghanistan#~http://www.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/15/the_real_reason_the_us_failed_in_afghanistan~http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/30/usa-today-pew-research-poll-americans-question-results-in-iraq-afghanistan/5028097/~http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/08/failure-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/Eventually it became obvious there was no justification whatever for the invasion

Over the past week there are
voices coming out of Egypt and some Arab countries -- voices that
publicly support the Israeli military operation against Hamas in the
Gaza Strip.

They see the atrocities and massacres committed by Islamists on a
daily basis in Iraq and Syria and are beginning to ask themselves if
these serve the interests of the Arabs and Muslims.
"Thank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like you to destroy Hamas!" — Azza Sami of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.
Isolated and under attack, Hamas now realizes that it has lost the sympathy of many Egyptians and Arabs.

Sisi's Egypt has not forgiven Hamas for its alliance with Muslim
Brotherhood and its involvement in terrorist attacks against Egyptian
civilians and soldiers over the past year. Arab World Holds Hamas Responsible in Latest Conflict

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas even publicly criticized
Hamas on Palestinian television, accusing the group of provoking
“unnecessary deaths” and “trading in Palestinian blood” by firing
rockets at Israel. Hamas responded by accusing him of “aiding the enemy”
and acting like a “criminal.”The Palestinian Authority’s representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council even acknowledged
that Hamas is committing war crimes by targeting civilians and
contrasted that with how Israel is following international law by
warning residents before strikes so as to minimize civilian casualties.The Palestinian Centre for Human
Rights, a non-profit organization based in Gaza City, is no friend to
Israel by any stretch of the imagination. Yet, even this group reported
on how Israel is giving civilians in targeted structures time to flee
by giving them advance notice through warning shots and even calling
their phones.Hamas is being held responsible for its provocations...Only 35% of Palestinians have a favorable view of Hamas. About 63% of those in Gaza and 47% of those in
the West Bank have an unfavorable view. That means that the political
position of Hamas has done a 180 degree turn.The survey also found that 65% of
Palestinians worry about Islamic extremism, consisting of 79% of those
in the Gaza Strip and 57% of the West Bank. Notice the correlation
between this statistic and unfavorable attitudes towards Hamas. This
indicates that opposition to Hamas is driven by the group’s ideological
extremism and not governmental issues like economic policy.

About 80% of Turks; 65% of Lebanese Sunnis; 61% of Jordanians and Egyptians and 42% of Tunisians have unfavorable opinions of Hamas. Its unfavorable ratings have risen 12% in Tunisia, 9% in Turkey and 8% in Egypt over the past year.

Arab journalist: Arab leaders pray Israel will get rid of Hamas once and for all.

Consider this — it is Egypt, the largest
Arab nation in the world, which is fighting against the Muslim
Brotherhood — a terrorist organization that the Obama administration
supported. Egypt is destroying the Hamas (Palestinian wing of the Muslim
Brotherhood ) tunnels and cutting off their support. Egypt is fighting
against jihadists trying to establish sanctuaries and bases of
operations in the Sinai. All the while, the Obama administration is
withholding Apache attack helicopter support to Egypt — yet Obama
provided Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government with fighter
aircraft and tanks. Whose side is Obama on?

<<The Arab World is actually interested in the IDF seriously hindering Hamas’ terror activities.
They see the atrocities and massacres committed by Islamists on a
daily basis in Iraq and Syria and are beginning to ask themselves if
these serve the interests of the Arabs and Muslims. A growing number of
Arabs and Muslims are fed up with the Islamist terrorists who are
imposing a reign of terror and intimidation in the Arab world.>>Senior journalist Khaled Abu-Toameh, writing for Gatestone, reports
that over the past week there are voices coming out of Egypt and some
Arab countries, voices that publicly support the Israeli military
operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Isolated and under attack,
Hamas now realizes that it has lost the sympathy of many Egyptians and
Arabs.

In fact, Sisi and many Egyptians seem to be delighted that Hamas is
being badly hurt. Some Egyptians are even openly expressing hope that
Israel will completely destroy Hamas, which they regard as the “armed
branch of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization.”

“Thank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like you to
destroy Hamas!” Wrote Azza Sami, of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.
In the past few weeks, a number of Egyptian TV hosts and reporters
have publicly condemned the actions of Hamas and even praised Israel,
with one even going so far as to post, both on Facebook and Twitter, a
thank you to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
That particular journalist was Azza Sami, deputy editor of the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram. She posted the following message online:

Bless you Netanyahu, may Allah make a lot of people like
you to destroy Hamas, the base of corruption, treachery and being an
agent for the (Muslim) Brotherhood. By Allah, whoever tells me
“forbidden (to say this)”, I don’t know what I’ll do.

"They have money and oil, but don't care about the Palestinians, even
though we are Arabs and Muslims like them. What a Saudi or Qatari
sheikh spends in one night in London, Paris or Las Vegas could solve the
problem of tens of thousands of Palestinians." — Palestinian human
rights activist.

"Some Arabs were hoping that Israel would rid them of Hamas." — Ashraf Salameh, Gaza City.

"Some of the Arab regimes are interested in getting rid of the
resistance in order to remove the burden of the Palestinian cause, which
threatens the stability of their regimes." — Mustafa al-Sawwaf,
Palestinian political analyst.

"Most Arabs are busy these days with bloody battles waged by their
leaders, who are struggling to survive. These battles are raging in
Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and the Palestinian Authority." —
Mohammed al-Musafer, columnist.

"The Arab leaders don't know what they want from the Gaza Strip. They
don't even know what they want from Israel." — Yusef Rizka, Hamas
official.

The Palestinians in general and Hamas in particular feel that the Arab
world simply does not care about them and does not even want to hear
from them.

Almost every Palestinian is today talking about the sense of betrayal
by the Arab world. It is a feeling that has increased Palestinians'
hostility and mistrust toward their Arab brethren.
Palestinian cartoonist Umaya Juha expressed Palestinian feelings toward the Arab "betrayal" in a drawing
that shows an Arab and Islamic arm stabbing a Palestinian woman from
the back – while she had also been stabbed in the chest by Israel.

Prominent Palestinian editor Abdel Bari Atwan said "The Palestinian people's problem with their Arab brothers is much bigger than their problem with the Israelis," Atwan explained.
"The Palestinians can resist Israel and fire rockets at it, but they
don't want to do the same against their Arab executioners because they
continue to regard them as brothers."

Sheikh Ekremah Sabri, the former mufti of Jerusalem and a leading
preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, claims that the three wars waged by Israel
against Hamas have been "coordinated" with the Arab countries.

Another analyst, Adnan Abu Amer, expressed fear that the Arab "silence" has already reached the level of "collusion" with Israel.Last night, the Israel Defense Forces told the Red Cross to evacuate
civilians from UNRWA’s shelter in Beit Hanoun between the hours of 10
a.m. and 2 p.m. today. UNRWA and the Red Cross received the message.Hamas prevented civilians from evacuating the area during the window
that the IDF gave them. Today, July 24, Hamas continued firing from Beit
Hanoun. The IDF responded by targeting the source of the fire. Also
today, several rockets launched from Gaza toward Israel fell short and
hit Beit Hanoun.

The UNRWA is perhaps the worst branch of one of the worst organizations
on the globe. The UNRWA has an interest in perpetuating Palestinian
terrorism, thereby keeping Palestinians “refugees” requiring UNRWA’s
aid. UNRWA routinely employs members of Hamas,
their schools promote hatred for Israel, and their graduates often
become terrorists themselves. Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to
the UN, points out, “at least 46 terrorist operatives were students in
the UNRWA schools.”

Palestinians in the new Islamic State of Gaza, crying out for more aid
from the United Nations, are turning to United Nations Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA) for help. Their reliance upon UNRWA comes as no surprise.
The organization has been providing food, medicine, and social services
to the Palestinian people for 57 years. Unfortunately, UNRWA has never
taken steps to withhold assistance to extremist groups. In some cases,
it has cooperated openly with terrorists. Today, as UNRWA provides
assistance in Gaza, it is directly providing financial and material
support to the Hamas terrorist organization.

UNRWA's budget, which exceeds $365 million, is funded by many nations,
but the United States and other Western nations are the largest
contributors. Cutting off UNRWA's budget would be detrimental to Hamas
in Gaza. It would also send an important message to the United Nations,
which perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem and lends legitimacy
to groups like Hamas through UNRWA's continued existence.

Here are the top five ways that Hamas is using civilians to shield
itself against Israel – and then exploiting their bodies in the press
when Israel fights against Hamas terror: 1. Placing Rockets In Schools. Last week, the UNRWA
admitting to finding Hamas rockets in two of their schools. Not one.
Two. The UNRWA confiscated the rockets – and then turned those rockets over to Hamas.
That prompted Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blast UN
chief Ban Ki Moon, stating, “UNRWA schools were established to educate
children in Gaza, but instead they are providing a hiding place for
rockets meant to kill children in Israel.”2. Using Hospitals to Hide Rockets. The Obama administration has said approximately nothing about Hamas firing an anti-tank missile directly from Al-Wafa hospital
on Thursday. On Monday, Israel hit al-Asqa Hospital in Deir Bala, which
was being used to house anti-tank missiles. In 2008, Hamas Prime
Minister Ismail Haniyeh used a hospital for his command center.3. Shuttling Terrorists in Ambulances. Hamas has used ambulances as cover for firing on Israeli targets and for transportation. Repeatedly. 4. Hiding Rockets in Mosques, Playgrounds, and Cemeteries. The IDF has released photographs
showing Hamas placing weapons in and around places of worship,
children’s playgrounds, and burial spots. And, of course, Hamas is
shooting from within civilian homes.5. Using Babies and Women As Human Shields. According to reports
from parents of IDF soldiers, “soldiers have repeatedly seen young
children in Sheijaya, Gaza, be sent out into the streets with guns to
try to attack IDF troops. One parent reported that terrorists had run at
IDF soldiers with a gun in one hand and a baby in the other, apparently
in hopes that the soldiers would see the child and hold their fire. If
soldiers fired, the parent added, the child’s death could be used as
propaganda against Israel.” Hamas is also reportedly smuggling weapons in baby blankets.

Last week, Hamas’ Ministry of the Interior specifically told civilians not to go to designated areas to avoid Israeli fire:

An important and urgent message: The
[Hamas] Ministry of the Interior and National Security calls on our
honorable people in all parts of the [Gaza] Strip to ignore the warnings
[to vacate areas near rocket launching sites before Israel bombs them]
that are being disseminated by the Israeli occupation through manifestos
and phone messages, as these are part of a psychological war meant to
sow confusion on the [Palestinian] home front, in light of the [Israeli]
enemy's security failure and its confusion and bewilderment.

On July 8, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri stated, “The people oppose
the Israeli fighter planes with their bodies alone...I think this method
has proven effective against the occupation. It also reflects the
nature of our heroic and brave people, and we, the [Hamas] movement,
call on our people to adopt this method in order to protect the
Palestinian homes.”

By cracking down on Israel while Hamas seeks civilian casualties, the
Obama administration ensures the deaths of more Jews and more
Palestinians.

“The Egyptian people know exactly who they are facing, and understand
that there is no alternative to employing the Egyptian army to strike
terror cells in Gaza and destroy Hamas in a military operation,” Hayah
Al Dardiri, a presenter for Egypt Today told viewers. Addressing the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Egyptian actor Amr
Mustafa said that they should not expect any help from the Egyptians.
“You must get rid of Hamas and we will help you,” he said. He also
called on Hamas to stop meddling in the internal affairs of Arab
countries. “Pull your men out of Egypt, Syria and Libya,” Mustafa
demanded.

The Palestinians hold onto the following myth. “A bunch of Europeans
came and stole our country from us.” Although embraced fervently as
truth by themselves and their supporters, the historical facts say
otherwise. The first Zionist pioneers bought, not stole, the land they
settled on. They grudgingly agreed to the 1947 United Nations partition
resolution. The Arabs did not. They invaded Israel with the intent of
wiping it out. They lost. The victorious Israelis did indeed practice
ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian population. Had the
Palestinians won, however, they would have done the same to the Jews.
The question remains; would the world have been as morally “outraged”
were it the Jews being victimized. Probably not. For unfathomable
reasons, Jews are held to an impossible double standard unlike the rest
of the world.Hence Syria’s Assad can kill 160,000 of his countrymen
with nary an outcry from the Islamic world.

So where does it end? Too many on each side of
the equation feed off of the fear, hatred and dehumanization of the
other. Added is the sense of victimhood, an affliction that allows for
selfish entitlement and the abandonment of accountability. Each tribe,
the Arabs and the Jews, is guilty of this.

As long as the Palestinians and their allies
persist in the belief that Israel has no right to exist, that nation
will keep on fighting to prove otherwise. They will do so with the
ruthlessness of a cornered grizzly bear surrounded by hunters. How long
this cycle of violence continues is up to them, no one else.

SOME OF THE VIDEOS BELOW ARE BY CITIZENS OF GAZA. THEY ARE GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING.THIS IS HAMAS!

Friday, July 18, 2014

It is clear that Eastern Japan and Metropolitan Tokyo have been contaminated with radiation.

"Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine," Dr. David Suzuki .

A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS!Position Statement: What Is Currently Happening to Fukushima Children?
Source: Michiyuki Matsuzaki, M.D.
Translated by: Fukushima Voice
Date: May 19, 2012
"The fact that 35% of Fukushima children (average age around 10) have
thyroid cysts strongly suggests that these children’s thyroid glands are
negatively affected by undesirable environmental factors.
There is a strong concern that waiting for further analysis of above
data and the completion of follow-up examinations will lead to
irreversible health damages in these children.
Consequently, it is strongly desired that small children living in
Nakadori (adjacent to the coastal region) and Hamadori (the coastal
region) in Fukushima receive immediate implementation of preventive
measures such as evacuation and more frequent screening examinations.
Based on above findings, a letter from Shunichi Yamashita to thyroid
specialists all over Japan, instructing them not to offer second
opinions to concerned families, can only be considered a repressive
conduct: a violation of human rights for those exposed to radiation and
current patients."

IN THE BEGINNING, SCIENTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE SAID CLEARLY THAT ALL OF EASTERN/NORTHEASTERN JAPAN, INCLUDING TOKYO SHOULD BE EVACUATED, AND BRIEFLY, THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT SEEMED POISED TO DO SO.

WHAT CHANGED?
WHY ISN'T JAPAN PROTECTING ITS PEOPLE INSTEAD OF ITS ECONOMY?
WHY AREN'T CHILDREN MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE STOCK MARKET THERE?

<<So, using our knowledge base at the Radioisotope Center, we
calculated. Based on the thermal output, it is 29.6 times the amount
released by the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In uranium
equivalent, it is 20 Hiroshima bombs.
What is more frightening is that whereas the radiation from a nuclear
bomb will decrease to one-thousandth in one year, the radiation from a
nuclear power plant will only decrease to one-tenth.
In other words, we should recognize from the start that just like
Chernobyl, Fukushima I Nuke Plant has released radioactive materials
equivalent in the amount to tens of nuclear bombs, and the resulting
contamination is far worse than the contamination by a nuclear bomb.

As to the food inspection, there are more advanced survey meters than
germanium counters, such as semiconductor detectors. Why doesn’t the
Japanese government spend money in supporting (the development of these
advanced detectors?)?
After 3 months, the government has done no such thing, and I am shaking with anger.” [...]
I have been in charge of antibody drugs at the Cabinet Office since
Mr. Obuchi was the prime minister [1998-]. We put radioisotopes to
antibody drugs to treat cancer. In other words, my job is to inject
radioisotopes into human bodies, so my utmost concern is the internal
radiation exposure and that is what I have been studying intensely.
The biggest problem of internal radiation is cancer. How does cancer happen? >>Because radiation cuts DNA strands.

THE ABOVE VIDEOS HAVE BEEN REMOVED!!!!ASK YOURSELVES WHY!!!

Dr. Shintaro Kikuchi, Pediatrician in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT, VIDEO REMOVED FROM YOUTUBE!WHY?<<We need help from outside Japan because Japanese people don’t think the situation for children is getting worse and worse.
We are now in very bad condition. Especially for children.
So please give us help.>>

http://www.eurasiareview.com/18042012-japan-fukushima-woman-organizes-radiation-information-centers-at-church/Tomoyuki Yamazaki, a Japanese doctor and a United Church member in
Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan who provides medical counselling at
the information center every month, said in an email to ENInews that an
increasing number of children he has seen “have nosebleeds that don’t
stop, diarrhea, dark circles under their eyes, and incurable stomatitis
[an inflammation of the mucous linings in the mouth]. A growing number
of children [at the centre] have pains in their chests.”

Although the target readers for this essay were not the general public, it has been cited in a weekly
e-mail magazine published by journalist Kota Kinoshita, who has been organizing actions to urge people to leave
radiation affected areas (including Tokyo) since 3.11, 2011.

It
is the opinion
of WNSCR that Dr. Mita’s views have significant meaning for the general
public, especially for those who are interested in the health impact
of radiation on the general
population.

<<To my fellow doctors,

I closed the clinic in March 2014, which had served the community of
Kodaira for more than 50 years, since my father’s generation, and I
have started a new Mita clinic in Okayama-city on April
21.

In the afternoon of March 11, 2011, Tokyo experienced slow but great
motions in the earthquake. I thought, “now this is what’s called
long-period seismic motions. The South Eastern Sea
earthquake, with the following Hamaoka NPP accident, are finally
coming”. Instead, the source of the earthquake was in Tohoku. The
temperature of the reactors in Fukushima Daiichi NPP rose and it
caused massive explosions, followed by meltdowns and melt-through.

I think it is important to acknowledge what people who visited
Belarus and Ukraine, and heard the stories of the locals, have seen
and felt there, and listen to those who served in rescue operations
in Chernobyl in the past more than 20 years.

Their experience tells them that Tokyo should no longer be
inhabited, and that those who insist on living in Tokyo must take
regular breaks in safer areas.

Issues such as depopulation and state decline continue to burden the
lives of second and third generation Ukrainians and Belarusians today,
and I fear that this may be the future of Eastern
Japan.

Since December 2011, I have conducted thyroid ultrasound
examinations, thyroid function tests, general blood tests and
biochemical tests on about 2000 people, mostly families in the Tokyo
metropolitan area expressing concerns on the effects of radiation. I
have observed that white blood cells, especially neutrophils, are
decreasing among children under the age of 10. There are
cases of significant decline in the number of neutrophils in 0-1
year-olds born after the earthquake (<1000). In both cases,
conditions tend to improve by moving to Western Japan (Neutrophils
0-->4500). Patients report nosebleed, hair loss, lack of energy,
subcutaneous bleeding, visible urinary hemorrhage, skin inflammations,
coughs and various other non-specific symptoms.

Contamination of the soil can be shown by measuring Bq/kg. Within the 23
districts of Metropolitan Tokyo, contamination in the east part is
1000-4000 Bq/kg and the west part is 300-1000 Bq/kg.
The contamination of Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, is 500 Bq/kg
(Ce137 only). West Germany after the Chernobyl accident has 90 Bq/kg,
Italy has 100 and France has 30 Bq/kg on average. Many
cases of health problems have been reported in Germany and Italy.
Shinjuku, the location of the Tokyo municipal government, was measured
at 0.5-1.5 Bq/kg before 2011. Kodaira currently has
200-300 Bq/kg contamination.

Kodaira, in western Tokyo, is one of the least-contaminated areas in
Kanto; however, we began to notice changes in children’s blood test
results around mid-2013 even in this area. Contamination
in Tokyo is progressing, and further worsened by urban radiation
concentration, or the effect by which urban sanitation systems such as
the sewage system, garbage collection and incineration
condense radiation, because contaminated waste is gathered and
compressed. Data measured by citizens’ groups showed that radiation
levels on the riverbeds of Kawabori River in Higashiyamato and
Higashimurayama in Tokyo have increased drastically in the last 1-2
years.

Other concerns I have include symptoms reported by general patients,
such as persistent asthma and sinusitis. The patients show notable
improvement once they move away.
I also observe high occurrences of rheumatic polymyalgia
characterized by complaints such as “difficulty turning over,”
“inability to dress and undress,” and “inability to stand up” among my
middle-aged and older patients. Could these be the same symptoms of
muscle rheumatism that were recorded in Chernobyl?

Many patients report experiencing unfamiliar symptoms or sensing
unusual changes in their bodies. Perhaps they feel comfortable speaking
to me, knowing that my clinic posted signs informing of
possible radiation-related symptoms immediately after the nuclear
accident. Many young couples with small children and women worried about
their grandchildren visit my clinic and earnestly engage
in the discussion, and there is not a single patient who resists my
critical views on the impacts of radiation.
Ever since 3.11, everybody living in Eastern Japan including Tokyo is a victim, and everybody is involved.

We discovered that our knowledge from the discipline of radiology
was completely useless in the face of a nuclear disaster. The keyword
here is “long-term low-level internal irradiation.” This
differs greatly from medical irradiation or simple external exposure
to radiation. I do not want to get involved in political issues;
nonetheless, I must state that the policies of the WHO, the
IAEA or the Japanese government cannot be trusted. They are simply
far too distanced from the harsh realities that people in Chernobyl
still face today.

The patients from Eastern Japan that I see here in Okayama have
confirmed the feelings that I have had for a long time, since I was
based in Tokyo. People are truly suffering from this utter lack
of support. Since 3.11, mothers have researched frantically on
radiation to protect their children. They studied in the midst of their
hostile surroundings in Tokyo, where they could no longer
trust either government offices or their children’s schools. Family
doctors were willing to listen about other symptoms, but their faces
turned red at the slightest mention of radiation and
ignored the mothers’ questions. Mothers could not even talk openly
to friends anymore as the atmosphere in Tokyo became more and more
stifled.

I believe that it is our duty as medical doctors to instruct and
increase awareness among the Japanese public. This is our role as
experts, having knowledge of health that the general public does
not possess. Three years have quickly passed since the disaster. No
medical schools or books elaborate on radiation sickness. Nevertheless,
if the power to save our citizens and future
generations exists somewhere, it does not lie within the government
or any academic association, but in the hands of individual clinical
doctors ourselves.

Residents of Tokyo are unfortunately not in the position to pity the
affected regions of Tohoku because they are victims themselves. Time is
running short. I took an earlier step forward and
evacuated to the west. My fellow doctors of medicine, I am waiting
for you here. And to the people in Eastern Japan still hesitating, all
my support goes to facilitating and enabling your
evacuation, relocation, or a temporary relief in Western Japan.>>
(Translation by WNSCR team)

<< Q: Please tell us about the examinations that are conducted by the Mita clinic.

A: Since October 2011, we have carried out blood
examinations, which include ‘differential white blood cell count’, and
thyroid ultrasound examinations. The WBC (white blood
cells) consist of 5 different kinds of cells: neutrophil,
lymphocyte, eosinocyte, basophil, and monocyte. The ‘differential WBC
count’ consists of comparing the ratio of occurrence between these
five cell types. Workers who work in environments with high
radiation levels have to take ‘ionized radiation health checks’, which
particularly focus on ‘differential WBC count’.

In the current situation, thyroid ultrasound examinations have been
getting a lot of attention, but I consider differential WBC count to be
rather important as well, for assessing the effects of
radiation.

Q: Do you mean that we can understand the impact of radiation on humans by checking differential WBC count?

Mita: Yes. Blood is produced in the bone marrow
which is one of the organs that are most vulnerable to radiation. If the
bone marrow is exposed to high doses of radiation, the
quality and ratio of blood corpuscle cells can be changed. The
values of differential WBC count can be affected easily by even tiny
inflammation in the body. So, in our clinic, we first take a
close look at patient’s condition such as the symptom of
inflammation and liver function. If a patient is diagnosed with such
conditions, we ask him/her to undergo the blood examination only
after full recovery.

It is possible to see tendencies of areas by evaluating the data of hundreds and thousands of people.

If at all possible, I would like them to move away from East
Japan. >>

During a Press Conference in New York
on May 4, 2012, Dr. Junro Fuse, an internist and head of Kosugi Medical
Clinic near Tokyo, discussed children, diabetes, and Fukushima radiation:

There are hot spotseven within the Tokyo Metropolitan Area that have actually already led to physiological problems/damage.

We are expecting thyroid disorders in children, but also cancers (bladder, leukemia, lung), diabetes.

PLEASE GO TO THE LINK BELOW TO READ HOW DOCTORS HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO SAY THAT THERE IS RADIATION SICKNESS IN THEIR PATIENTS!

Japanese doctors ordered to cover up mass radiation sickness across population

The Asia Pacific Journal recently noted
that the studies used to assess radiation risk fail to account for
internal exposure: “These studies are [only] concerned with external
exposure.”

Shunichi Yamashita, the head of the commission and the vice president of
Fukushima Medical University explains, “There is no malignant change
due to the nuclear plant accident”
HE WAS REFERRING TO THIS, WHICH WAS POSTED ON A JAPANESE WEBSITE.
From Fukushima Minpo (1/25/2012):
<<1143 Children (Over 30%) of 3765 Tested for Thyroid Abnormalities in Fukushima Had Lumps
At the expert commission, the result of the thyroid test was reported.
The test was done on the children below the age of 18 in Namie-machi,
Iitate-mura, and Yamakiya District of Kawamata-machi [all planned
evacuation zone].

Total number of children tested: 3765
No. of children found with lumps 5.1 millimeters and larger: 26 (0.7% of total)
No. of children found with lumps smaller than 5.1 millimeters: 1117 (29.7% of total)

But the prefectural government has decided they are "benign". >>

<<The thyroid testing is part of the Fukushima residents
health management survey, and was carried out in Namie, Iitate-mura, and
Yamakiya District of Kawamata-machi first. For the other areas, it has
been on-going.
It decidedly does not look totally OK to me, and the explanation by the Fukushima officials sounds suspect.>>
[http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/01/1117-children-over-30-of-3739-tested.html]NO, WE DO NOT KNOW THAT THESE ARE "BENIGN"! THEY REFUSED TO SEND ALL BUT A HANDFUL OF THEM FOR FURTHER TESTING!

Japan Correspondent: It’s very scary, officials trying to brainwash
public about Fukushima crisis — Professor: We’re wrapping our heads more
and more around Fukushima’s legacy… human impact becoming more clear…
that’s a very big and serious issue here — “Virtually no public support
for nuclear power

July 14, 2014 (h/t Fukushima Response) — Umi Hagitani, interpreter, Japan correspondent for Ecological Options Network
(at 9:30 in): The survivors of the nuclear power accident and
supporters of children… are asking the city of Koriyama to evacuate
them because of the exposure to the radiation. But the women of
Fukushima, their statement demanded that the reduction of the
radioactive exposure is more urgent than the current federal policies
and practices in Japan, which is to force people to remain in the
contaminated area… Many students of the 5th and 6th grade in elementary
school, they attend something called a cancer seminar where they learn
about how cancer is such a typical story for many people, they don’t
have to worry about it… They’re trying to even build a junior high
school and high school combined together by 2020 in Futuba County — that
is the closest place to the Fukushima Daiichi. But the administration
of the town invited and made a survey of the kids, and I guess kids were
not told about the options that they could evacuate, they made it look
like they’re interested in coming back. It seems that right now the Abe
cabinet has already schemed out a lot of brainwashing and making people
feel that it’s possible to decontaminate — and its making the suffering
of the people invisible… I feel like that after 3 years, there are more
cover-ups and silencing the survivors of this ongoing nuclear accident
in Fukushima Daiichi, and it’s really well supported by the structural
power hierarchy… it’s very scary to see this. The current situation is
that the Ministry of Environment is putting fake radioactive monitors
all over.>> Full KWMR broadcast here

ABC 90.3 FM, July 14, 2014 — Dr. Robert Jacobs, associate professor at Hiroshima City University
(at 3:15 in): It’s become a much more common and regular thing you read
in the newspapers and topic of discussion among people in Japan… it’s
become increasingly a topic of conversation because we do here have to
deal with the fact that it’s every day pouring radiation into the sea.
We’re wrapping our heads more and more around the legacy of it… The
human impact is unfolding in more clear view than it did at first, so
that’s a very big and serious issue here… People are very, very aware of
[contamination in the food supply]… People are very anxious about it…
There’s virtually no public support for nuclear power, especially in the
communities in which the plants are located. >> Full ABC broadcast here

"Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine," Dr. David Suzuki has said.
"Three out of the four plants were destroyed in the earthquake and in
the tsunami. The fourth one has been so badly damaged that the fear is,
if there's another earthquake of a seven or above that, that building
will go and then all hell breaks loose.
"And the probability of a seven or above earthquake in the next three years is over 95 per cent."
Suzuki said that an international team of experts needs to go into
the Fukushima plant and help fix the problem, but said the Japanese
government has "too much pride to admit that."

Radiation in Alaskan waters could reach Cold War levels, said Douglas
Dasher, a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, although
John Kelley, a professor emeritus at the same university, doesn't seem
as certain that it will reach dangerous levels for humans.
"The data they will need is not only past data but current data, and
if no one is sampling anything then we won't really know it, will we,"
he told the network.

MANY TOP-NAME, HIGHLY RESPECTED SCIENTISTS AND NUCLEAR ENERGY
EXPERTS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WARN JAPANESE RESIDENTS ABOUT THIS SINCE DAY
1.JAPANESE PHYSICIANS HAVE MADE PLEAS FOR HELP.JAPANESE MOTHERS HAVE EVEN BEGGED IN PUBLIC FORUMS, BY EMAIL, IN THE NEWS, FOR SOMEONE TO TAKE THEIR CHILDREN TO SAFETY.

30%
OF ALL CHILDREN TESTED IN THE FIRST YEAR ALONE THERE HAD THYROID LUMPS,
PRECURSORS TO POSSIBLE THYROID CANCERS...IN JUST THE FIRST YEAR!THAT PERCENTAGE IS HISTORICAL AND HORRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE!THEY TESTED FEW CHILDREN IN COMPARISON TO HOW MANY RECEIVED RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION FROM FUKUSHIMA'S NUCLEAR PLANT.

PHYSICIANS
THERE HAVE BEEN THREATENED IF THEY TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
MISCARRIAGES, BIRTH DEFECTS, RADIATION SICKNESSES THEY HAVE SEEN, AND
HAVE SAID SO MANY TIMES. NURSES, MIDWIVES, HOSPITAL STAFF HAVE ALL TRIED
TO WARN THE PEOPLE. SOME HAVE SUCCEEDED.

PLEASE STOP RELYING ON
HUSH-NEWS, ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT IS DESIGNED TO "KEEP DOWN THE
PANIC", TO KEEP THE POPULACE CALM, TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM FLEEING FROM THIS
DISASTER TO SAFETY!

Thursday, July 17, 2014

BEFORE WE HAD AN INDEPENDENT NATION CALLED AMERICA, BEFORE WE HAD POLITICAL PARTIES, OR A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE?WHO "GOVERNED"?DON'T SAY ENGLAND, BECAUSE ENGLAND HAD "FORCES" HERE MAINLY TO COLLECT MONEY.ENGLAND WAS NOT HELPING THE COLONISTS PLANT CROPS, HARVEST CROPS, GET CROPS TO MARKET.WHO WAS HELPING THE COLONISTS?THEY WERE HELPING THEMSELVES! THERE WERE NO GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FOR FARMERS (AND ALMOST EVERYONE WAS FARMING), NO HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT TO MAINTAIN ROADS, NO DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OR EDUCATION OR HEALTH OR...ANYTHING...THERE WERE NO DEPARTMENTS! THERE WERE NO POLITICAL PARTIES! THERE WERE NO ELECTIONS!THERE WAS NO CONGRESS!!!!LIFE WAS GOOD! THE KING WAS AN OCEAN AWAY AND THE COLONISTS WERE HANDLING ALMOST EVERYTHING QUITE NICELY ALL BY THEMSELVES, THANKS.LOOKING BACK NOW, AFTER OVER 200 YEARS, GIVEN WHAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED HERE IN AMERICA, SEEING THAT THE REPUBLIC TURNED TO A DEMOCRACY THAT HAS NOT, CANNOT BE CALLED A "GOVERNMENT BY, OF, AND FOR THE PEOPLE", BUT INSTEAD A GOVERNMENT OF FOR AND BY A RULING ELITE, A HANDFUL OF RICH, POWERFUL "MICRO-MANAGERS" OF ALL OUR LIVES, WE MAY DO WELL TO HAVE ANOTHER LONG, HARD, HONEST LOOK AT THE POINTS IN HISTORY THAT GOT US HERE, HERE IN "1984" WITH "BIG BROTHER IN CHARGE. The American Revolution was not a great social revolution like those in France in 1789, in Russia in 1917, or in China in
1949. We must remember that America, in the days prior to the Revolution, was a farming colony, a colony composed mostly of "common Joes and Janes", a colony of independents, people who could and who did handle everything sans POLITICIANS. So what was the Revolution about?It certainly was NOT a "social" revolution!A true social revolution destroys the institutional foundations of its old order and transfers power from a ruling elite to new social
groups.
THAT DID NOT HAPPEN HERE!

Yes, we stopped bowing to a KING, but we BEGAN bowing to those who certainly LOOKED LIKE kings, princes, barons, etc.Yes, America ridded itself of the English monarchical society, in which the colonists were subjects of the Crown, and THOUGHT it was transforming into a REPUBLIC, in which they were citizens and participants in the
political process. The Revolution was SUPPOSED to give a new political significance
to the middling elements of society, ordinary craftsmen, merchants, farmers, her "middle class", basically. HOWEVER, in the framing process and ensuing debates about her new CONSTITUTION, the "founders" allowed ONLY ONE COMMON FARMER into those rooms-full of rich planters, upper-crust, educated would-be "leaders" of this new nation...ONE COMMONER.

The Revolution was SUPPOSED to make it impossible for elitists to openly disparage the ordinary
people, to keep them out of the governing process, but let's remember that those slave-owning elite who forged that Declaration of Independence and Constitution decided amongst themselves, in those very private chambers, that "common man" was INCAPABLE of making sound enough decisions to TRULY ELECT a president, and so we were saddled with an ELECTORAL COLLEGE of men who would DECIDE FOR US, EVEN DECIDE AGAINST THE POPULAR VOTE!

Why does the United States have an Electoral College when it would be so
easy to directly elect a president, as we do for all the other
political offices?THE SHORT ANSWER IS BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF DEMOCRACY!THEIR PERSONAL LETTERS AND JOURNALS ATTEST TO THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN!THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE COMMON MAN, THE AVERAGE CITIZEN, AFRAID HE WOULD WIELD TOO MUCH POWER!

James Madison worried about what he called "factions," which he defined
as groups of citizens who have a common interest in something that could either violate the rights of other citizens or "harm the
nation as a whole". This was also referred to as "the tyranny of the majority"!Alexander Hamilton wrote: The point of the Electoral College is to preserve "the sense of the
people," while at the same time ensuring that a president is chosen "by
men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and
acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious
combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to
govern their choice.""MEN MOST CAPABLE"???WHO DECIDED WHO WAS MORE CAPABLE THAN THE NEXT?THE ELITE MINORITY, THAT'S WHO!

"ELECTORS" OF THE "ELECTORAL COLLEGE" are loyal members of the party that has selected them, and in 26 states, plus Washington, D.C., electors are bound
by laws or party pledges to vote in accord with the popular vote.
Although an elector could, in principle, change his or her vote (and a
few actually have over the years), doing so is rare.
As the 2000 election reminded us, the Electoral College does make it
possible for a candidate to win the popular vote and still not become
presidentIN OTHER WORDS, SCREW THE POPULAR VOTE, THE FOUNDERS FOUND A WAY AROUND THE "DEMOCRATIC PROCESS" AND YOU LOSE, AMERICAN VOTERS!

During the colonial era, the percentage of white men who participated in politics was low. There were NO ORGANIZED POLITICAL PARTIES , and adult white men tended to defer to "GENTLEMEN", AS THEY HAD BACK IN EUROPE!

Wealthy merchants, wealthy lawyers, and wealthy large plantation owners held the major political
offices. HOWEVER, in the years leading up to Revolution, those elites watched the "commoners" begin to participate more and more in politics. "Voter turnout" climbed as did the
number of CONTESTED elections. The founders saw the POWER OF THE MASSES and it TERRIFIED THEM!

The SUCCESS of the Revolution led to demands FROM THE COMMON FOLK that the vote be extended to a LARGER proportion of the
population and that public offices be elected BY THE PEOPLE. During and
after the Revolution, SMALLER farmers, RURAL artisans, and laborers began
increasingly to participate in state legislative elections, and men
claiming to represent their interests began to win office and gain
power. HERE IS WHAT MOST AMERICANS HAVE EITHER FORGOTTEN OR NEVER KNEW...THE FIRST 6 PRESIDENTS WERE APPOINTED, NOT ELECTED!

The first presidents were appointed by THE SAME ELITES WHO FRAMED THE NEW NATION, BY ELITES,NOT ELECTED BY THE MASSES! The first six presidents were members of America's political elite, chosen BY America's political elite. Not until 1820s, with the rise of Andrew Jackson, did popular
voting have a role in the selection of presidents!

The evolution of the electoral college is only a small
part of the story of the transformation of the fundamental principle of
American government from LIBERTY to democracy. LIBERTY, AFTER ALL, WAS THE INITIAL GOAL, AND A REPUBLIC, NOT A DEMOCRACY!Candidates for the office of president came from a well-established political elite, and, because of
widespread selection of electors by state legislatures, candidates
needed to win the support of others in the political elite in order to
win the office. Despite the rapid emergence of factions in American
government, prior to 1828 NO ONE CAMPAIGNED for presidential
candidates, NO POLITICAL PARTY SYSTEM WAS FORMED.But controversy erupted in the "election" (WHICH WAS REALLY A SELECTION) of 1824, when John Quincy Adams
was SELECTED by the House of Representatives to be the nation's sixth
president.

Four candidates received "electoral voters" for president in 1824. Andrew
Jackson received the highest number of electoral votes, with 99,
followed by John Quincy Adams with 84, William H. Crawford with 41, and
Henry Clay with 37.

Because no candidate had a majority, following the
rules modified by the Twelfth Amendment, the House of Representatives
was to choose the president from the top three vote recipients. Rather
than choose Jackson, a war hero but a political outsider, the House
chose Adams, the son of the nation's second president and a member of
the political elite. Adams' election followed "the rules", but Jackson's
supporters were outraged by the choice, believing that Adams was chosen
only because of a "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Henry Clay in
which Clay was appointed Secretary of State in exchange for Clay's
support of Adams's candidacy.

So why were Jackson’s supporters so upset? They were upset because the
actual practice of presidential elections had deviated significantly
from the Founders’ intent in the decades preceding the 1824 election,
and if the actual practice at the time had been followed, rather than
the literal rules of the Constitution, Jackson’s supporters believed
that he would have been elected president.HE HAD THE MOST ELECTORAL VOTES, WAS FAVORED BY THE MASSES, YET LOST!!!

All this led to the formation of the Democratic party, which was organized for the
specific purpose of electing Andrew Jackson to the presidency. Jackson's
supporters, led by Martin Van Buren, formed the Democratic party after
the election of 1824 to ensure that in the next election Jackson would
get a majority of the electoral votes, and so could not be denied the
presidency by an elitist House of Representatives.

WOE, WOE UNTO AMERICA, THE PARTY SYSTEM BEGAN! Van Buren was well aware of the American tradition opposing political parties, tracing its origins back through Federalist 10
and supported in word by all six of the first presidents, but Van
Buren, a Senator from New York, perceived legitimate political
differences among politicians that could be expressed along party lines.
More significantly, he viewed the opposition of incumbents to organized
parties as support for the continuance of political dominance by
America's aristocratic elite. Without organized opposition, the elite
could continue to dominate American government indefinitely. Parties
served the legitimate interest of organizing political opposition,
resisting the concentration of power in an elite group, and providing a
broader representation of the political views of most Americans.
Van Buren did not misperceive the role that his new Democratic party
would play. Indeed, the Founders tried to insulate the federal
government from democratic control for what they believed were good
reasons, and had no notion that the president would be chosen by the
popular vote of American citizens. Yet the Democratic party had formed
to do just that.The efforts of Van Buren and the Democrats were an unqualified success,
and Jackson won the presidency in 1828, defeating the incumbent
president by an electoral total of 178 to 83. The modern party system
was born, as both the Democrats and their opponents recognized that
after Jackson's election, a party organization would be necessary to win
the presidency. After Jackson's two terms as president, Van Buren was
elected president for one term, and was unseated by his Whig challenger
William Henry Harrison in 1840. The American two-party system has
evolved since then, but it has NOT fundamentally changed.

What Jacksonians did not anticipate was that by making government officials
more accountable to the general public, they would be more inclined to
make decisions that pandered to popular opinion rather than sticking to
the guidelines of the Constitution. When one analyzes the changes associated with Andrew Jackson’s
presidency in the context of the earlier changes in the electoral
college, one can see that the most lasting changes brought by Jackson
were a result of the electoral college rather than Jackson himself.

The
growth of political parties and interest-group politics, and the
promotion of democracy as a fundamental principle of American
government, all came as a result of the move to popular voting for
president. Jackson’s ideas for limiting the scope of the federal government were
completely undone by the growth of democracy in America. Indeed, had
Jackson not been so successful in promoting democracy, the cause of LIBERTY would have been better served. But even this gives Jackson too
much credit, because by the time he was elected, the incentives in
presidential politics had changed, making parties and special interest group
politics inevitable. AMERICA CAME UNDONE!

AMERICANS GAVE UP LIBERTY TO ACQUIRE POWER!

<<It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has
no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it
has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time
on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State
power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether
by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power; there is
never, nor can there be, any strengthening of State power without a
corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.>>~From the book, Our Enemy, The State, by Albert Jay Nock

Nock praises the Articles of Confederation as the closest model of
American freedom. And he blasts the men who hammered out the
Constitution as nothing but usurpers engaged in a coup d'etat. Far from
heralding the drafters, he exposes them as public creditors, land
speculators, money lenders, and industrialists looking for privilege.
They tossed out the Articles and used unscrupulous methods to ram the
Constitution down the public's throat.

It was in this stage of American history, Nock says, that the state was
unleashed. Next came the party system, and the dynamics of statism that
causes "every intervention by the State" to enable another so that "the
State stands ever ready and eager to make" interventions through deceit
and lies.

Nock's argument that the same economic forces which in all times and in all nations drive toward the ascendancy of political power at the expense of social power were in operation here in America made little headway.
That is, the feeling that "it cannot happen here" was too difficult a hurdle for the book to overcome.
Few took note of his warnings, the slide down into servitude to the party system continued, continues today!<<It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.>> -- Henry L. Mencken, 1926.

ONLY 1/3rd OF THE COLONISTS WANTED A REVOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND!John Adams estimated that roughly a third of the American population
supported the Revolution, a third remained loyal to the Crown, and a
third was uncommitted.

Recent research suggests that perhaps 20 percent
of the population consisted of Loyalists. Loyalists were especially
strong in New Jersey and South Carolina.
One of the Revolution's consequences was to create not only the United
States, but also the modern nation of Canada. After the war, about
80,000 Loyalists--including substantial numbers of former
slaves--emigrated from the United States, mainly to Canada.
The Loyalists were disproportionately from the ranks of the influential,
the officeholders, and the well-to-do. Those who stayed in the colonies
were removed from positions of prominence.
LET US PAUSE HERE AND REFLECT...TWO-THIRDS OF AMERICA WAS DRAGGED INTO THIS REVOLUTION WITHOUT SUPPORTING EVEN THE IDEA OF IT!COULDN'T THIS, DIDN'T THIS LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE CIVIL WAR?

BAD FEELINGS OF ONE SIDE AGAINST THE OTHER, THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE MASSES QUESTIONING SLAVERY, QUESTIONING "HUMAN RIGHTS", RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN THE NEW NATION, RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE, SERVITUDE IN GENERAL, ALL THAT HAS TO BE LOOKED AT CAREFULLY AS WE APPROACH THE NEXT MAJOR EVENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY...HER CIVIL WAR.

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR...WHY?Was it, as we have been taught, a noble cause?NO! NO, IT WAS NOT!Freedom of America's slaves was NOT at the center of it. Slavery was a practice recognized by
the government as a source of CHEAP physical labor justified by its economic outcome...PROFIT for slave owners! The government condoned this practice! It was a major part of
America's economic system at the time and would have continued right up to TODAY!

So, what WAS the motive?POWER!ECONOMIC POWER!
You see, thanks to a lucrative and thriving slave-oriented economy, the SOUTH was
considerably wealthier than the NORTH at the time prior to the Civil War.
The NORTH couldn't match the economic superiority of its richer SOUTHERN STATES...UNLESS IT COULD LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD BY TAKING AWAY WHAT GAVE THE SOUTH ITS ECONOMIC EDGE!LINCOLN'S PLAN ALSO, ONCE AND FOR ALL, SHOWED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HOW TO USURP STATES RIGHTS, PUT FEDERAL POWER OVER STATE SOVEREIGNTY, FORCE STATES TO BEND TO THE WILL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND END THE IDEA THAT GOVERNMENT IS "BY, FOR, OF THE PEOPLE".

What the Lincoln White House came up with was NOT a plan to "free the slaves", but a way to bring down the South, to stop its steady climb up the economic ladder, to force it into second place, TO MAKE IT COMPLY WITH FEDERAL WISHES. THE CIVIL WAR WOULD HAVE BEEN FOUGHT IF SLAVERY HAD NEVER BEEN NAMED AS A REASON FOR IT!
THE NORTH WANTED THE REINS, WANTED AN ECONOMIC EDGE, AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE THAT IT WAS, AND ALWAYS WOULD BE, THE FINAL AUTHORITY, THE LAW OF THE LAND, STATES' RIGHTS BE DAMNED!

There is no part of the Constitution that authorizes a president to
force a state to remain in the Union. Rather than upholding his oath,
this was the beginning of Lincoln violating his oath to uphold the
Constitution; which he did on several other occasions.

<<With a volley of artillery fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, the South started a war that nearly destroyed the United
States in pursuit of a terrible cause. In that conflict more than
630,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in four years of hellish war.
To place this in perspective consider that the entire population of the
United States at war's end was 35 million, putting war casualties at
nearly two percent of the total populace. Equivalent rates of
casualties today would result in five million dead or wounded, dwarfing
our losses in World War II, or any other war. Specifically, eleven southern states seceded from the Union in protest
against federal legislation that limited the expansion of slavery claiming that such legislation violated the tenth amendment, which they argued trumped the Supremacy Clause. The war was indeed about protecting the institution of slavery, but only as a specific case of a state's right to declare a federal law null and void.
Southern states sought to secede because they believed that the
federal government had no authority to tell them how to run their
affairs. The most obvious and precipitating example was the North's
views on slavery. So yes, the South clearly fought to defend slavery as
a means of protecting their sordid economic system and way of life, but
they did so with slavery serving as the most glaring example of federal
usurpation of state powers of self-determination. The war would be
fought to prevent those states from seceding, not to destroy the
institution of slavery. The war would be fought over different
interpretations of our founding document. President Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation until
January 1, 1863, more than one and a half years after the war started.
His goal was initially to preserve the Union, and he only issued that
proclamation when he felt doing so would promote that objective. The war was about a principle, state sovereignty and the right of secession, that would destroy the United States.>> The States that left the founders' confederacy did so as individual
sovereigns. They then formed a Confederacy, a league, an alliance, a new union, "The Confederate States of America". These sovereign States and
their Confederacy were no longer part of the United States of America;
therefore it was NOT REALLY a Civil War. It was sovereign independent States
joined together in a Confederacy, which were then militarily invaded and
occupied by the then, newly established NATIONAL empire that replaced
the Founders original Confederacy.The result of years of internal war and death?The establishment of a CORPORATELY CONTROLLED NATIONAL EMPIRE, hegemony, perpetual WAR , economic enslavement, loss of liberty, loss of sovereignty of all American citizens and all American States!

One comment from that article stated: <<One other point: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to name a few, were able
to separate themselves as nations from the USSR and establish
themselves as separate political entities. Yet when that same
independence was earnestly sought by southerners on valid constitutional
grounds due to a usurpation of constitutional principles by a sectional
faction of the population, the south was met with war.>> That may sound crass, but it IS the LEGAL interpretation of what happened! SOME STATES SAW STATES RIGHTS AS WORTH FIGHTING FOR AND DID SO.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DECLARED WAR ON ITS OWN TO SHOW THEM THEY WERE WRONG.

Though we often get caught up in the comforting idea that the North fought for moral reasons, it really isn’t the case. YES, SLAVERY WAS WRONG, BUT SLAVERY WAS HARDLY THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE...POWER WAS!!!WHAT AMERICA CURRENTLY STRONGLY ENCOURAGES ALL OVER THE GLOBE, IT CONDEMNED WITHIN ITS OWN BORDERS!WHAT IT CONDEMNS NOW IN THE MIDDLE EAST, EUROPE, AFRICA, ETC, IT WAS GUILTY OF IN 1861!

FEDERAL POWER VERSUS STATES' RIGHTS!THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES VERSUS THE WILL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!WE ALL LOST THAT WAR!Interestingly, a 2011 Pew Research
Center poll found that a wide
plurality of Americans—48 percent—
believe that states’ rights was the
main cause of the Civil War. Fewer, 38
percent, attributed the war to slavery,
while 9 percent said it was a mixture
of both.In 1828 Vice-president John C. Calhoun said:
"If a state felt a federal law extended beyond the Constitutional
rights of the government that state had the right to ignore(or
"nullify") the law."IMAGINE THAT! ALMOST A CIVIL WAR IN 1832! As industry in the North expanded it looked towards southern markets,
rich with cash from the lucrative agricultural business, to buy the
North's manufactured goods. However, it was often cheaper for the South
to purchase the goods abroad. In order to "protect" the northern
industries Jackson slapped a tariff on many of the imported goods that
could be manufactured in the North. When South Carolina passed the
Ordinance of Nullification in November 1832, refusing to collect the
tariff and threatening to withdraw from the Union, Jackson ordered
federal troops to Charleston. A secession crisis was averted when
Congress revised the Tariff of Abominations in February 1833.

The Panic of 1837 and the ensuing
depression began to gnaw like a hungry animal on the flesh of the
American system. The disparity between northern and southern economies
was exacerbated. Before and after the depression the economy of the
South prospered. Southern cotton sold abroad totaled 57% of all
American exports before the war.

ANOTHER PANIC, THE NORTH BECOMES PARANOIDThe Panic of 1857 devastated the North
and left the South virtually untouched. The clash of a wealthy,
agricultural South and a poorer, industrial North was intensified by
abolitionists who were not above using class struggle to further their
cause.
With the disintegration of the Whig party in the early 1850's the political turmoil increased. The South was wrong to assume Lincoln intended to free the slaves. He
had never advocated action to abolish slavery nor did he speak out
against the Illinois rules prohibiting blacks from testifying against
whites. The true abolition candidate, Gerrit Smith of New York drew few
votes. In his inaugural address Lincoln made it clear he would not
interfere with slavery where it existed.

THE WEDGE OF DIVISION WAS DRIVEN DEEPER INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA.THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM RETURNED TO FURTHER DIVIDE THE NATION."RECONSTRUCTION" BECAME A CRUCIFIXION OF SOUTHERN STATES. THE CIVIL WAR CONTINUES TO THIS DAY.

THE MONEY, WHICH IS POWER, BEHIND AMERICA'S THRONE, THE ONES WHO CONTROL THE GOVERNEMENT BY CONTROLLING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS, RECOGNIZED THE AGE-OLD SAYING THAT "A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND", SO IT HAD TO RECREATE AND KEEP ALIVE A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM.

THESE OVERLORDS RECOGNIZED THE NEED TO WHIP AMERICANS INTO A POLITICAL PARTY FRENZY SO THEY WOULD BE BLINDED BY THE DRIVE TO INSTIL THEIR "CANDIDATE" IN OFFICE AND NOT SEE THE LOSS OF LIBERTY, THE TAKING AWAY OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS THAT SUCH BLIND AND IMPASSIONED LOYALTIES CREATED AND ALLOWED. ENTER THE CORPORATE PROPAGANDA MACHINE....MAINSTREAM MEDIA!

WITH "PROGRESS" THE TENTACLES OF THE "SHADOW GOVERNMENT", THOSE WHO FUND ALL ELECTIONS, ALL CANDIDATES, REACHED INTO THE HEARTS OF CITIZENS BY NEW MEANS OF SPREADING PROPAGANDA TO KEEP THE FLAME OF DIVISION BURNING.RADIO, TELEVISION, AND EVENTUALLY, THE INTERNET HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THEIR "DIVIDE AND DESTROY" MACHINE.WITH IT THEY CAN WAGE WAR AGAINST LOGIC AND REASON, AGAINST INDEPENDENT RATIONAL THOUGHT, AGAINST INDIVIDUAL AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY, AGAINST THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION, AGAINST ALL WHO SEE THIS AND SPEAK OUT.

WITH A MERE PHONE CALL OR EMAIL TO THEIR PERSONAL SLAVES, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, THE REAL GOVERNMENT, THE ONE IN THE SHADOWS, CAN BEGIN SMEAR CAMPAIGNS, DISCREDIT AND RUIN ANYONE WHO SEES THE LIGHT AND TRIES TO WARN THE REST OF US WHAT IS TAKING PLACE...THE THEFT OF AN ENTIRE NATION, THE DESTRUCTION OF LIBERTY, THE RIGHT TO BE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS IN SOVEREIGN STATES!

WITH THESE MEANS AND WITH UNLIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCES, THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, THE LORDS OF WALL STREET, THOSE WHO HOLD THE PURSE STRINGS OF AMERICA BY MEANS OF "CENTRAL BANKS", THE FEDERAL RESERVE, A GLOBAL BANKING CARTEL, ET AL, ARE ABLE TO BEND THE MINDS OF ALL GULLIBLE CITIZENS AND USE THIS "STAFF" TO SHEPHERD AMERICAN SHEEP ALONG TO SLAUGHTER.

POLITICS IN AMERICA?THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM?IT'S ALL ABOUT POWER, STUPID SHEEP!REALIZE THIS AND GET FREE OF IT.WE LEARN, OR WE PERISH.PICK ONE!

SOME SOURCES FOR THIS POST:http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3222http://www.mises.org/document/2936/Our-Enemy-The-Statehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Party_System